New Mayor of London

London has a new Mayor, after 8 years of Ken Livingstone, Conservative Boris Johnson was declared the winner after a six week campaign with 1,168, 738 votes, a majority of almost 140,000.

Boris has often been described as a floppy haired buffoon, even by his admirers, his bumbling, self-deprecating personality has long made him one of the best known politicians of his time, often by his many TV appearances, now he is running one of the biggest Cities in the World with, a £11 Billion budget.

His full name is Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson and was born in New York to English parents in 1964 and was, until recently, an American citizen. He has the typical upper class English background of Eton public school, Oxford University and a father who is a Conservative politician. But he is no stereotypical aristocrat.

Nothing about the 43-year-old now given huge powers over one of the world's great cities is as straightforward as it appears. Yet he has also has the ability to sabotage his own career with his sense of fun - and apparent refusal to take things too seriously - proving his undoing on more than one occasion.

Lets hope with Ken gone, Boris can start to make a difference to the people of Haveirng, the Mayor has a lot to do in helping Havering residents gain better services and more money distributed more evenly across London.

GLA Member for Havering and Redbridge, Roger Evans was also re-elected for another 8 year term, beating his second placed rival from the Labour party by a comfortable margin.